Garment.



No. 884,185. PATENTED APR 7., 1908. H. M. MAYPER.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10, 1907.

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No. 884,185. PATENTED APR. 7, 1808. H. M. MAYPER.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.10. 1907.

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HENRY M. MAYPIQR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed December 10, 1907. Serial No. 405,932.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

the city, county, and State of New York, ar form of garment.

I Be it known that I, HENRY M. MAYPER, of i have invented a new and useful Iniprovement in Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates toimprovements in garments, and more especially to ladies limited to this use as will appear from the description which follows.

The prime object of my invention is to produce a coat which with a very slight manipulation can be made to be either a loose back coat or a tight back coat. My invention is intended to carry out this idea in an extremely simple way, and preferably by arrangingcords so that by pulling them and tying them, the coat may be tightened in the back or at some other. necessary point, while by releasing the cords the coat can be given a loose or full backeffect. My invention is also intended to produce a coat which can be .made to have. the back appear tight and in the form of regular folds or plaits, or the coat p'hen tightened can be given a gatheredefect.

My invention is not even limited to the use of strings or cords, and obviously the drawing in of the garment around the Waist can be effected at the back or at any other desired point, and further the principle can be applied to any kind of coat, that is a rain coat or other coat, to pajamas, or other garments as desired.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifieation, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an inside elevation of the garment showing my improvements and illustrating the gathered effect. Fig. 2 isa face view of an attachment which can be applied to the inner-part of the coat. Fig. 3 is an edge or plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enl'argedbroken inside elevation of the deviceas arranged to gather the coat in the form of plaits. Fig. 5 is an edge or plan view of ;the structure shown in Fig. 6 is an-inside elevation of the adjusting means shown in Figs. 4 and 5, but with the device straightened out, and Fig. 7

' is a detail view of another modification in which snap fasteners are used instead of cords.

The garment lllas illustrated is a rain 'directions, the garment will be invention is peculiarly apbut it is not limited to any particu- I have shown a coat having on its inner side and about coincident with the waist line, a transverse strip 11 coat, to which my licable,

' which is-gathered up into parallel plaits 12,

and in these are placed eyelets '13 through which run oppositely arranged cords 14, the outer garments, although the invention is not cords being attached to the end eyelets only. in order that the eyelets and strips may not be unsightly, the guiding arrangement just described is preferably covered by a strip 14 of cloth or other material It will be seen that by pulling the back out straight, the coat will hang like a full back coat, but by pulling on the cords 14 the coat will be gathered in the back, thus giving it a tight back effect, and this can be maintained by tying the cords around the waist. It is obvious that the particular form of putting the eyelets in the coat is not very material, as any guiding devices for the cords will answer the purpose, but it is better to use a separate strip 11 and attach this either by cement or stitching, and have the parts eyeleted as shown, because they wear better, but obviously the effect would be the same if plaits were made in the inside of the garment itself and the cords run through the plaits, or any suitable keepers may be substituted for the eyelets.

If desired-the coat can be gathered in the back in the form of plaits by sim ly using a plurality of cords at each end. is is illustrated in Figs. 4 to 6, Where the coat is gathered in the form of plaits 10. To accomplish this at least two. cords at each end of the gathering device are used. The way they are connected is shown in Fig. 6, where the cords 14 are attached as shown at 15 and 15 to the plaits or folds 12,while,the cords '14 are attached as shown at 16 and 1.6 Thus when the four cords are pulled in -o pu ed together but the strain will come at alternate laits 12 so that the coat will partially colapse into the form of folds 1 clearly in Fig. 4. Obviously m'ore cords can be used, and a greater number of plaits made if'desired, and to obviate the use of so many cords they can be united into one cord if de-' sired, after they leave -A still simpler Way but one not quite so handy to use, is illustrated in Fig. 7, Where the coat is 0 as shown.

posite the gathering device.

rovided at intervals with fas- .teners 17. ii e the ordinary glove, fasteners.

' whichfca nilbe snapped together by gathering the garment into folds. As many catches can be used as desired for this purpose.

I have shown the attachment as applied to the back of a garment along the Waist line,

practically a transverse line.

I am aware that lacing devices have been used on garments, but these do not meet the requirements of a arment of this sort which must have the gat iering in a transverse line to get the right effect and preserve the sim-' plicity of the arrangement.

' I have shown eyelets as keepers to guide the adjusting cords; but it is obvious that any usual form of keepers can be substituted, the only necessary thing being to guide the cords and to provide a secure means of at-' taching them or connecting them to the garment.

Having thus fully described my invention;

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters" Patent 1. A garment having on its inner side oppositely arranged cords each connected with the cords.

the garment ata plurality of points and in a generall transverse line,'whereby th'e diameter of t e garment can be reduced by'pulling 2. A garment series of eyelets in a line generally transverse of the garment and cords extending from and connected with the eyelets, said cords belng Y oppositely arranged and attached to the garmentat a lurallty of points so that-by pulling them t duced. p I

3. A rment having on its inner side a strip wit. a transversely arranged line of eyelets or keepers thereon, oppos1tely arranged cords extended through and connected with said eyelets or keepers at various oints, and a cover for the said cords and eyel ers:

4. The combination with the garment of groups of cords attached at different points of the garment and each group extending through suitable guides in opposite direc- -tion's,-, attachment being made at difierent points along a generally transverse line on the garment.

' HENRY M. MAYPER.

Witnesses:

FRANK L. S'r BBs, RALPn LANCASTER.

having on its inner side a e diameter of the garment is re ets or keep- I 

